Saturday, November 08, 2008

Click here and scroll down.

Then click here and do the same.

Posted by poputonian on 11/08/08 at 08:40 AM
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Is it just me, or is this about the most tin-eared ad in the history of video production?

Script: “Would you get on a plane with a pilot who has never flown?”

Me: You betcha—long before I would get on a plane with a pilot who lost a total of four planes.

I understand they’re speaking metaphorically, but god-DAMN, what an unfortunate choice of images. The script goes on to ask rhetorically if you’d trust your children with someone who had never cared for children, go under with a surgeon who has never operated and—tada!—trust your country to a man who has “never been in charge of anything.”

That’s pretty fucking rich coming from the RNC, which foisted the metaphorical Michael Jackson of child care and the Dr. Kevorkian of health care on us in 2000 and 2004. That’s pretty goddamned cheeky from the party that gave us the catastrophically incompetent half-wit who has been in charge for the past eight years.

Posted by Betty Cracker on 10/30/08 at 10:03 AM
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Ron Howard piled up enough cool cred with Arrested Development to last a lifetime, so this is sure to get that stack wobbling…

Posted by Kevin K. on 10/23/08 at 01:11 PM
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

...  the most remarkable exchange was when Rove tried to claim that the Democrats were being unduly negative in their attacks on Republican standard bearer John McCain.

[Rove] said: “Yesterday, John Kerry, your nominee of your party in 2004, stands up and said, “if John McCain was asked the question of whether he wears boxers or briefs his answer would be Depends” ... I think that is pretty much under the table and pretty nasty.” [link]

Can’t stop laughing.

Video below the break.

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Posted by poputonian on 10/21/08 at 10:38 PM
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

I fucking hate Republicans.

The loathsome douchebag who included this image in her GOP newsletter…

...actually had the gall to offer up the following “defense”:

The group’s president, Diane Fedele, said she plans to send an apology letter to her members and to apologize at the club’s meeting next week. She said she simply wanted to deride a comment Obama made over the summer about how as an African-American he “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”

“It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of his statement. I really don’t want to go into it any further,” Fedele said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “I absolutely apologize to anyone who was offended. That clearly wasn’t my attempt.” [...]

“I didn’t see it the way that it’s being taken. I never connected,” she said. “It was just food to me. It didn’t mean anything else.”

And this boohooism from a member of Fedele’s group was as delusional as they come:

“It doesn’t even reflect our principles and values.”

The problem is, in fact, that it perfectly reflects the principles and values of the current GOP. No principles.  No values. And, hopefully, no future. I want these morally bereft bottom-feeders to rot in it up to their necks (and maybe higher) after November 4th.

[via JeffLieber]

Posted by Kevin K. on 10/16/08 at 05:18 PM
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It’s funny because it’s not too far from what actually happened...

MORE FUNNY: John McCain vs. Random Animals—Round 1

EVEN MORE FUNNY: Sam from I’m Not Feeling You is now doing an election diary blog called 23 Days in Dayton while he volunteers for the Obama campaign in Ohio. You’ll want to bookmark it for gems like “The cheese oozing over the beef represents America coming together…”

YET EVEN MORE FUNNY: Click around Sarah Palin’s Oval Office

Posted by Kevin K. on 10/16/08 at 02:04 PM
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Redistribute this Fleisher, you economics flunky.

Jon Stewart makes Ari Fleisher look stupid from Rumproast Clips on Vimeo.

Posted by poputonian on 10/16/08 at 08:51 AM
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Monday, October 13, 2008

Hillary Clinton campaigning for Barack Obama in Scranton, PA:

“It took a Democratic president to clean up after the last President Bush, it’s going to take a Democratic president to clean up after this President Bush.”

I know Hillary and others have pointed this out before, but I’m still not hearing it anywhere near enough. Just program that notion on auto-loop and let it play over and over until the 4th. It’s easy to understand, it’s the truth and it will resonate with the last few voters we need.

Posted by Kevin K. on 10/13/08 at 08:32 AM
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Saturday, October 04, 2008

Not falling for it.

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Posted by poputonian on 10/04/08 at 08:22 AM
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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Boogie Man will tear at your American (and allegedly forgiving) soul in ways that no other documentary has done before. As much as the tragic end of scumbag Republican strategist Lee Atwater’s life is compelling in the most push-out-the-piss kinda way, as the credits roll you’re left with a horrific and crisp vision of just how despicable and rotten Washington gamers can really be. Boogie Man also very deftly (and sometimes quietly) lays bare how unjustifiably rewarded and adulated flagrantly reckless and mean-spirited spinheads like Atwater have been by the members of our complicit, junk-hungry media.

Atwater, as some of you may know, was Karl Rove’s mentor (you know what a smoldering pile of offal he is—no need to go there).  And Rove begat Steve Schmidt, the oddly-skewed baldheaded mule spawn who’s been recently seen burping up detritus in support of his paid-to-love-him guy John McCain. That’s why this doc is an important arrival now. As much as you may be relishing the recent apparent flaming destruction of the McCain-Palin campaign, after viewing this documentary, you should be concerned that Schmidt could still pull some wild, ill-conceived Atwater-style bottom-dwellerism outta his keester that will, inexplicably, click with a majority of voters and pull the gate down, once again, on what seemed like the Obvious Choice.

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Posted by Kevin K. on 10/02/08 at 12:20 PM
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Monday, September 29, 2008

I’ve been steering clear of writing about the bailout because economics isn’t my strong suit.  My brief analysis is that I don’t like that the events of today were decided by know-nothing grassroots “populists*,” John McCain phoning it in, Nancy Pelosi’s bad-hair-day speech, drool-cupped house Republicans bellowing “let’s done make things worserer!”, and John Boehner’s extra-fluffy fainting couch.

If I were you, I’d read Jim Newell’s take on the utter ridiculousnesses of today and then go use your credit card (while it still works) and buy as much booze as your credit limit can handle.

* Before anyone jumps all over me for this, I realize there are a lot of smart citizens (and fellow progressives) who were against this bailout for educated and principled reasons.  I just believe that a vast majority of the angry voters who were calling up their congresscritters to complain about the bill were dull-eyed dimwits egged on by wrong-about-everything nutters like Limbaugh and Hannity.

MORE: John Cole looks at the absurdity of the Republicans’ response to the failure of the bailout bill, including a video of Barney Frank delivering a wonderful zinger.

UPDATE: This Kos diary makes sense to me, but your mileage may vary.  And the title of this diary explains succinctly who has the temperament and intelligence to be the next president of the United States and who very clearly doesn’t.

Posted by Kevin K. on 09/29/08 at 04:39 PM
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Friday, September 26, 2008

My favorite 15 seconds of last night’s political commentary:

Posted by Betty Cracker on 09/26/08 at 10:50 AM
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

I haven’t seen anyone compile everything that turned sour for McCain and Palin yesterday, so let me take a stab at it.  If I missed anything, please let me know in the comments.

• The NY Times reports that Rick Davis’ lobbying firm was receiving $15,000 a month up until last month from Freddie Mac.
  
• Campbell Brown’s “Free Sarah Palin” rant on CNN goes viral.
  
• New Washington Post/ABC News poll shows Obama up nine points over McCain.
  
• New Fox News poll shows Obama up six points over McCain.
  
• The National Enquirer releases the identity of the man Sarah Palin allegedly had an affair with in ‘96.
  
• A super creepy video of Palin’s former “witch hunter” pastor laying hands on her in ‘05 starts circulating via YouTube. [UPDATE: It gets even worse.]
  
• Palin’s interview with Katie Couric is a full-blown, fucking disaster.
  
• The media and punditry immediately call bullshit on John McCain’s blatantly transparent political stunt of “suspending” his campaign and asking for Friday’s debate to be postponed. Morning roundup here.
  
• Obama doesn’t fall for McCain’s bullshit.
  
• Neither does the American public.
  
• Alaskan state rep calls for investigation into tampering by McCain campaign for interference in Troopergate investigation.
  
• David Letterman turns hard on McCain for canceling his appearance on the Late Show (and lying about the reason) and fills the vacancy with one of McCain’s harshest media critics, Keith Olbermann.
  
• Right after Letterman’s show, Craig Ferguson eviscerates McCain as well.
  
• Internal talking points about McCain’s campaign suspension are accidentally emailed to the media.
  
• Laura Bush says Palin lacks foreign policy experience.
  
• It’s revealed that McCain met with former Clinton supporter Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild while Obama was waiting for him to return his phone call about the financial crisis.
  

Okay, I’m exhausted, but I’m sure I’ll be adding more.  In all of my way-too-long adult life, I’ve never seen a presidential campaign have a worse day than what the McCain/Palin camp endured yesterday. Let me know what else I missed (or got wrong) and stay tuned.

Posted by Kevin K. on 09/25/08 at 12:19 PM
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Submitted without comment:

Posted by Betty Cracker on 09/16/08 at 01:31 PM
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Monday, September 15, 2008

Robert Lanham’s enormous head

Make sure you tune in tonight for the premiere of Radio Rumproast from 11PM -12:30AM ET. It should be a great show. Our guest will be the always entertaining Robert Lanham, author of the The Hipster Handbook, Food Court Druids…, and The Sinner’s Guide to the Evangelical Right. We’ll talk about his books, evangelicalism in politics, the general election, ferrets (one of his favorite subjects, especially if they’re Wiccans) and something really unfortunate that happened to him yesterday when he was running in Brooklyn. We’ll also feature a roundtable of bloggers, including No More Mister Nice Blog‘s Steve M. and Rumproast’s poputonian, discussing the past week’s events and, of course, we’ll be taking your calls at (347) 826-7678. Radio Rumproast: We like it well-done.

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Posted by Kevin K. on 09/15/08 at 06:31 PM
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